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Need advice on setting up ESX 3.5 on c7000 HP Chassis - boot from SAN
When setting up ESX 3.5 on c7000 HP chassis w/BL460c g1 blades, what are best practice on configuring Boot from SAN for Qlogic 373i controllers? With the Qlogic HBAs, we normally boot from SAN with port 1 configured to boot and Port 2 disabled. My VMware guy wants me to enable both ports and boot from both ports. I was told this is not a good idea, but I cannot remember why? Are there docs for best practices?
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We are using Hitachi AMS1000 SAN, not HP. ESX aside, is there a problem with connecting both ports from a Qlogic HBA to Brocade 48000 switches AND making them bootable?